CBT strongly encourages taking a proactive approach to managing workplace health and safety. Implementing a workplace safety program is imperative for keeping your facility and employees safe.

Approximately 20% of workplace injuries are caused by slips, trips, and falls. These incidents costs businesses an average of $20,000 per incident and over 95 million work days each year. According to a survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, slips, trips, and falls are the third-most common injury in the workplace. 

Learn how frozen fruit and vegetable processor, NORPAC, achieved optimal hygienic performance, faster product changeovers, and tremendous bottom-line savings by converting all post-freezer applications in a plant to Intralox ThermoDrive technology. 

We know it is critical for you to maximize your investment in your automation system. Discovering and managing product lifecycle is important when optimizing performance, increasing efficiency, and in turn reducing downtime. 

The CBT Cincinnati open house is tomorrow May 11th, don’t miss your last chance to preregister! Your day will be full of educational seminars, product demonstrations and displays, catered lunch from Eli’s BBQ, networking opportunities, and much more!

When it comes to providing highly engineered products that improve productivity and efficiency for industrial applications worldwide CBT partner Rexnord is leading the way. Rexnord has an extensive bearing product line, ensuring you will find the perfect bearing for your application.

KapStone Paper and Packaging makes unbleached kraft paper that goes into the packages, wraps and surfaces that are part of everyday life. The company’s production is converted into everything from gift boxes, to paper bags, to subsurfaces for laminate countertops and furniture. Two mills in Charleston, South Carolina and Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina operate around the clock and together are capable of producing 1.3 million tons of paper annually.

“Downtime costs about $33,000 an hour, per machine. You never recover that because you’re running 24/7/365.”- Christopher Deslandes, CIO

CBT partner, Hubbell Wiring Device- Kellems manufactures tamper-resistant electrical mechanisms specializing in commercial grade outlets and heavy duty receptacles. Most tamper-resistant receptacles use a spring-loaded sliding ramp shutter mechanism in the body of the receptacle. Hubbell heard customer concerns regarding sharp edges on plug blades making plug insertion difficult, and created their patented cam action mechanism.